Latin Small Letter A With Diaeresis

Part of Accented Latin Letters

On Windows, hold Alt and type 0228 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter a with diaeresis.

Alt code
Alt+0228
HTML entity
ä
Unicode
U+00E4

About this symbol

Ä is an umlaut vowel in German, the a sound shifted towards e, as in Mädchen, girl. In Swedish, Finnish and Estonian it is a letter of its own, sorted near the end of the alphabet.

Unicode facts

Official name
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
Type
Lowercase letter
Unicode block
Latin-1 Supplement
Unicode group
Lowercase letters
Added in
Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Capital form
Ä Latin Capital Letter A With Diaeresis U+00C4
Built from
a Latin Small Letter A U+0061
◌̈ Combining Diaeresis U+0308

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